Hacker News with Generative AI: DOS

James Gleick's Chaos: The Software (github.com/rudyrucker)
This is a free release of the source, manual, and executables of a 1991 Autodesk DOS program that was called "James Gleick's CHAOS: The Software."

Software, Programming, History, Retro Computing, DOS

264 points by signa11 4 days ago | 33 comments

Microsoft LISP (edm2.com)
A LISP interpreter for DOS marketed by the Microsoft Corporation in the 1980's, it is actually a licensed version of muLISP that omits the compiler but is otherwise mostly identical.

Programming Languages, History, Microsoft, DOS, LISP

27 points by copx 48 days ago | 4 comments

DOSBox-X: Enhanced Fork of DOSBox for Expanded DOS and Retro PC Support (github.com/joncampbell123)
This commit does not belong to any branch on this repository, and may belong to a fork outside of the repository.

DOS, Emulation, Retro Gaming, Open Source, Software

99 points by Fission_Strike 49 days ago | 41 comments

Revisiting the DOS Memory Models (blogsystem5.substack.com)
At the beginning of the year, I wrote a bunch of articles on the various tricks DOS played to overcome the tight memory limits of x86’s real mode. There was one question that came up and remained unanswered: what were the various “models” that the compilers of the day offered?

Operating Systems, Programming, History, DOS, Memory Management

8 points by thunderbong 50 days ago | 2 comments

The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack (int10h.org)
The world's biggest collection of classic text mode fonts, system fonts and BIOS fonts from DOS-era IBM PCs and compatibles - preserving raster typography from pre-GUI times:

Computer Fonts, DOS, Retro Computing, Typography

124 points by OuterVale 52 days ago | 15 comments

A "hello world" program in machine code on DOS (uninformativ.de)

Programming, Operating Systems, DOS, Assembly Language, Low-Level Programming

24 points by zdw 53 days ago | 13 comments

DOStodon MS-DOS Mastodon Client (github.com/SuperIlu)

DOS, Mastodon, Software, Programming

7 points by Bluestein 80 days ago | 0 comments

DOS's Last Stand on a Modern ThinkPad: X13 Gen 1 with Intel 10th-Gen Core CPU (yeokhengmeng.com)

DOS, Laptops, Hardware, Operating Systems, Retro Computing

10 points by yeokm1 95 days ago | 2 comments

WordStar for DOS 7.0 Archive (sfwriter.com)